Word: Backed
Noun
Definitions:
1. The rear surface of the human body from the shoulders to the hips.
Example sentences: "He lay on his back"
2. The side or part of something that is away from the spectator or from the direction in which it moves or faces; the rear.
Example sentences: "At the back of the hotel is a secluded garden"
3. A player in a team game who plays in a defensive position behind the forwards.
Example sentences: "Their backs showed some impressive running and passing"
4. The grounds of Cambridge colleges which back on to the River Cam.
Adverb
Definitions:
1. In the opposite direction from the one that one is facing or travelling towards.
Example sentences: "He moved back a pace"
2. So as to return to an earlier or normal position or condition.
Example sentences: "She put the book back on the shelf"
3. In or into the past.
Example sentences: "He made his fortune back in 1955"
4. In return.
Example sentences: "They wrote back to me"
Verb
Definitions:
1. Give financial, material, or moral support to.
Example sentences: "He had a newspaper empire backing him"
2. Walk or drive backwards.
Example sentences: "I put the car in reverse and backed down the road"
3. Cover the back of (an article) in order to support, protect, or decorate it.
Example sentences: "A mirror backed with tortoiseshell"
4. Lie behind or at the back of.
Example sentences: "The promenade is backed by lots of cafes"
Adjective
Definitions:
1. Of or at the back of something.
Example sentences: "The back garden"
2. From or relating to the past.
Example sentences: "She was owed back pay"
3. Directed towards the rear or in a reversed course.
4. (of a sound) articulated at the back of the mouth.
Example sentences: "A long back vowel, as in 'dance' or 'bath'"
Derivations:
backing
backer
back
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Backed in Other Languages...
Spanish: Respaldados
German: Backed
French: Soutenu
Italian: Sostenuta
Turkish: Destekli
